"The situation from the time when medicines were limited and costly to now might have been better but the invisible stigma persists in the society," said Daxa Patel, who was diagnosed with HIV in 1998.
On his discovery of a Harappan cemetery in Kutch's Juna Khatiya, Prof Rajesh SV concluded the graveyard is spread over 16 hectare, making it the largest pre-urban Harappan cemetery discovered so far in India.